Commencing 5th November Air New Zealand is introducing new later flights on the Auckland – Wellington route. These flights will be sold as “Night Rider” with all seats sold at NZ$29 seat only or NZ$39 with checked in bag. There will be no in flight service and no Lounge Access.

Air New Zealand Airbus A320 ZK-OJE operating NZ703 Auckland – Sydney altered course today to assist in the search for a yacht which had activated an emergency beacon. Air Canada Boeing 777-200LR C-FIUJ was also involved and was able to locate the yacht and provide co-ordinates to Australian emergency services.